Shirt retainer



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i llillltllll,vv SACHS HIBSCH AND MORRIS HIRSCH, OF NEWARK, JERSEY.' i

SHIRT RETAINER.

A `Application tiled May 19, 1925. y Serial 110.131,275.

To all whom it may camera.-

Be it known that we, HERBERT Saone EliasonI and MORRIS HIRscH, citizens of the United States, both residing at Newark, county of Essex, and State of-New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Shirt Retainer, of which the following is a specification. fj

This invention is a shirt retainer adapted to be detachably secured on the inner waistv band of a pair of trousers in such manner as to engage with the shirt and preclude the shirt from creeping up, particularly when the wearer engages in strenuous work or exercise.

The retainer' of this invention is made of thin circular disk provided at its center with an aperture servingthe function of a-button hole and adapted to be passed over a button sewed on the waistband of the trousers, for the purpose of detacbably 4mounting the retainer on such garment.y lWe are aware that shirt retainers are not broad. ly new, but the shirt retainer of this inven` tion overcomes the disadvantages inherent in prior devices of this character and is constituted to more efficiently function than any l prior device intended for the same purpose.

Among the novel features of the invention, though not the exclusive ones, which we have embodied in ourdevice, the following -upon and bear against the ribbed frusto con` may be briefly adverted to. v

The button receiving opening at the center of the device is circular and is provided about its periphery with an upstanding reinforcing lbead or llange which precludes tearing of the rubber at the side of the open-y ing and formsl a seat with which the' back of the button is adapted to engage. About the seat for the button the cent-ral portionof the device is substantially frusto conical and the surface of theA frusto conical portion is fluted or ribbed so that when the central portion of the button seats on the bead aboutthe opening, the margins of the button will scat ical portion and through engagement there- I. with will grip the device against rotation,

so that there will be no tendency of the device to turn land thus release the garment a little at a time as is the case in practically all prior constructions. The outer-margin or periphery of the disk is provided with a raised flange which properly-reinforces or lends body to the entire disk and enables us to make that vportionof the disk interiorly of the peripheral bead `of much less thickness than heretofore possible. The portion of the device interior of the bead is provided with gripping' members adapted to engage and tightly grip the shirt. These grlpping members are in practice made in the form of annular rows of points or pro- ]ections vwith one or more similar rows of suction cups. These projections and suction cups cooperate with the annular periph,

eral bead to tightly engage the shirt and y eliminate all tendency of the shirt to creep up out of the trousers. 4

- -It is tobe further noted that the portion of the device-engaged by the button is depressed from the remaining parts of the disk to such extent-that the button will be housed in a recess and free from engagement with the shirt. These features to which we have referred render the structure of this invention well adapted 'for the performance of its intended functions as' will be hereinafter .more fully explained.

The accompanying 4drawings show the best Inode 1n. which we contemplate vapplying the invention.

lIn the drawings,.Figure 1 isla. face viewl oflthe device. f

igure 2 is a fragmental perspective on the line Q--QD of Figure 1;' and, i

vice showing the manner in which it is mounted on a pair of trousers, aswell as the manner in which it cooperates to hold thel shirt against creeping up.

Figure 3 is a central section of the de-v i* Referring to the: drawings, 1 designates a rubber disk which, in practice, is preferably .formedin a suitable mold.l It has a circular periphery and is provided with a fiat back 2. y

The forward face of the disk 1 is provi ded' with an upstanding peripheral bead 3 interiorly of which bead the disk is made relatively thin, so that the major portion of the face of the disk constitutes, in eifect a sunken portion 4. At the center of the disk a circular hole 5 is provided and about the margin of this hole, there is a slightly raised bead or ila-nge 6 exteriorly of whichy is 4formed a substantially frusto conical depression 7 This depression 7 extends from the sur-- ice face of the sunkenn portion 4to the base of the iange Sand is providedy with radially ,extending ribs 8.which taperto pointsin the direction ofthe flange 6.

-It will be noted from the drawings, that I tearing while the flange 6 is elevated with respect to thebase of the depression 7, the upper edge of such flange is considerably below the surface of the sunken portion 4. A

The central opening 5 serves the function of a button hole and by its position the device may be passed over a button 9 sewed to the inner waist band 10 of a pair of trousers 1l by stitches 12, as shown in Figure 3. It will be noted that the button 9 is quite thin and in practice a very thin metal button is. preferably employed.

From Figure 3, the function of the bead (i and ribs 8 will be apparent, since this fieure clearly shows that when the device is 1n engagement on the trousers the button will seat upon the top of the flange (5 and sin1ul taneously bear against and into the ridges 8 to thereby tightly grip the device and hold the saine against rotation. The bead 1 (i moreover Awill properly reinforce the opening 5 and lend sufficient body thereto to pre elude inadvertent release of the button or of the rubber at the margin of the opening.

It will be further noted from Figure 3 that through the provision of the frusto conical seat 7, a recess is provided in which the button is received, so that when the device is in use, the button will not be caused to bear against the shirt which is designated 13 in Figure 3.

When the device is in use, the peripheral flange or bead 3 will bear against the`shirt and the gripping of the shirt will be further accomplished by a plurality of annular rows of points 14 cast integral with the device and upstanding from the sunken portion to substantially the same height as the flange 3. Suction cups 15 arranged in an annular row are also formed on the sunken portion 4 and extend upwardly tothe plane of the upper edge of the flange 3. Figure 3 graphically shows the manner in which the fiange 3, the points 4t and the suction cups 15 engage the shirt to tightly grip the same and hold the shirt against creeping up.

The device is extremely simple in construction` but functions with high efficiency in the carrying out of its intended purposes. In practice, four retaining devices, such as we described, are preferably employed, the

same beingequa'lly spaced about the trouser band 10 to engage the shirt at different points in its circumference andthus e'ectw ally preclude creeping up of the shirt.

By employing the construction which we have described, the device can be made so thin that its presence is not perceptible to `the observer or noticeabley by the wearer and will withal have suicient body to render it capable of withstanding such strains or stresses which would force it out of shape or disengage it from the button 9.

Having thus fully described the invention,

' perforated rubber disk,

upstanding from the sunken what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A shirt retainer comprising a centrally perforated rubber member having a flat back and provided on its forward face with a plu rality of points or projections formed on said member and upstanding therefrom, said., member being provided with a centrally po- I sitioned recess in its forward face and which recess surrounds the perforation, and an upstanding bead immediately surrounding the perforation and between t-he perforation and the recess.

2. A shirt retainer comprising a centrally having' a flat back and provided at its outer periphery with a forwardly extending lange interiorly of which the forward face of the disk is provided with a sunken portiong'a plurality of points formed on the disk v'and upstandingl Lfrom the sunken portion, ai recess centrallv of the disk and surrounding. the perforation and an upstanding bead immediately surrounding the perforation and between the perforation and the recess.

3. A shirt retainer comprising a ccntrallv perforated vrubber disk having a flat back and provided at its outer forwardly extending flange interiorly of which the forward face of vided with a sunken portion, a points formed on the disk and upstanding from the sunken portion, a plurality of suction cups also formed on the disk and also portion, a recess centrally of the disk and surrounding the perforation, and an upstanding bead immediately surrounding the perforation and between the perforation and the recess.

plurality of 4. A shirt retainer comprising a centrally perforated disk having a; fiat back and provided at its'outer periphery with a forwardly extending vflange intcriorly of which they forward face of the disk is provided with a sunken portion, a plurality of points and suction cups formed on the forward face of the disk and extending from the sunken portion to substantially the plane of the free edge of the peripheral flange, a substantiall frus-l to conical'ribbed recess surrounding the central perforation. and an opstanding Harige positioned about the margin of the perforation and between the perforation and the recess, said flange extending to a point intern'iediate the base of the recess and the base of the sunken portion, whereby a button is adapted to seat within the recess and enrage with the free edge of the bead and bear against the ribs to preclude rotation of the device relative to the button.

In testimony whereof we have signed the foregoing specification.

HERBERT SACH HRSCH. MORRIS HIRSCH.

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